Re: gdb: "error: no usable dependency style found"

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:58:14AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hello,
> trying to build a cross-gdb targetting amd64 (with build.sh -V MKCROSSGDB=yes)
> on a linux host, I get:
> checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
> checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
> checking dependency style of cc... none
> configure: error: no usable dependency style found
> *** [configure-gdb] Error code 1
> 
> this used to work, I think it's related to the recent gdb update.
> Any idea ?

I just stumbled on this today.  I'm building 6.0 RC1 on a Linux host.
Besides building w/o MKCROSSGDB=yes, are any workarounds/fixes known?

Dave

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